Drinking coffee could activate the body’s fat-fighting defenses, which is a discovery that could have a potential effect in the battle     1     obesity and diabetes. In a study, researchers said that coffee may help stimulate our brown fat reserves,     2     plays a key role in how quickly we can burn calories.

There are two forms of fat cells, brown cells and white cells, and each     3     (play) a different role in our body. While brown cells help generate heat, white cells take     4     (responsible) for the storage of fat or energy.

“Brown fat works     5    (different) from other fat in your body and produces heat by burning sugar and fat, often in response to cold,” said Professor Michael Symonds. “Increasing     6     (it) activity improves blood sugar control as well as blood lipid levels, and the extra calories     7     (burn) help with weight loss. However, until now, no one has found an     8     (accept) way to stimulate its activity in humans.

“We are now trying to find out     9     there’s another component helping with the activation of brown fat，besides caffeine.” Symonds said,“Once we have confirmed which component is responsible for this，it could potentially be used as part of a weight-management method or regulation program     10     (help) prevent diabetes.”

Eating at restaurants hasn’t always been known as the best choice for people     1    are trying to keep a healthy diet. It is     2    (extreme) hard for people to avoid food that isn’t so good for them when dining out. However, you don’t have to give     3     your love of restaurants.There are ways that you can eat healthier food when dining out while you can still enjoy the experience.

One method is to take time     4    (read) the nutrition information. Some restaurants post it on their menus or their website. If you know you’re going to visit     5     certain restaurant, you should check the website first. If no nutrition information     6    (list), you should check the menu at the restaurant before you order.

Another way is to think about not eating cream or butter sauces. Instead, consider     7    (choose) a sauce that could add a rich flavour to your food without extra calories (卡路里)．

All restaurants have water available. Whether it is free or you have to buy it，you should choose to drink water over other drinks like beer or soda, which       8     (contain) a lot of calories.

Eating out doesn’t have to be an unhealthy     9    (decide) as long as you make wise choices. You could still enjoy all of the benefits of dining out and be     10    (please) with your choices later on.

Sichuan has long been known as the "Province of Abundance"．     1     （history） speaking， Sichuan was the home of the ancient    2    （state） of Ba and Shu． Their conquest by Qin     3    （strength） it and paved the way for the First Emperor's unification（统一） of China under the Qin Dynasty． During the Three Kingdoms era， Liu Bei's Shu    4    （base） in Sichuan． The area became one of China's     5    （productive） areas by the 19th century． The people of Sichuan speak     6     unique form of Mandarin， which took shape during the area's repopulation     7     the rule of the Ming Dynasty． The family of dialects is now spoken by about 120 million people， which would make    8     the 10th most spoken language in the world if counted separately． The area's warm damp climate long caused local people     9    （advocate） spicy dishes． The native Sichuan pepper was supplemented by Mexican chilis during the Columbian Exchange to form modern Sichuan cuisine，    10     Dishes--including Kung Pao Chicken and Mapo Tofu--have become famous around the world．

【推荐2】Three hundred years ago, Maohou or “hairy monkeys” quickly became much loved by the people in Beijing. How did people come up     1     them?

The story     2     (go) that the shopkeeper of a Chinese medicine shop often shouted at his employees. One evening an apprentice (学徒) was tidying up the ingredients (原料)     3     (use) to make Chinese medicines in the shop. To kill time, he found     4     (he) making a little figure out of the feathery flowers and the head and legs of a cicada’s (蝉) skin. The apprentice showed it to his colleagues,     5     (joke) that it looked like their bad-tempered boss.

The little thing quickly became such     6     hit that they started making more figures. Thus, Beijing’s unbelievable “hairy monkey” making came into     7     (exist).

Nowadays, “hairy monkeys” are far from the most popular children’s gifts on the market in Beijing. Mass-produced     8     (toy) have obviously reduced the demand for handmade figures. But that’s not to say that Maohou has     9     (complete) died out. Walk among the sellers at today’s temple fairs in Beijing, and you might still find a few places selling “hairy monkeys”,     10     are without doubt one of the city’s most amazing crafts.

Today most of the world’s money is made up of paper. Though payments are often made with plastic cards or by other technologies, virtual money     1    (seem) to be the next big thing. The idea of paper money started in China. For much of Chinese history, what most people thought of     2     money were small coins with holes in the middle. These coins     3    (put) on a piece of string, 100 coins to a bunch. Normally, ten bunches were kept on the same string,    4     could be very heavy to carry around.

    5     (solve) this problem, beginning around Tang Dynasty, businessmen would deposit (存款) their coins with someone, and for a receipt, that person would give them a piece of paper     6    (call) feiqian, or “flying money”. Then when the businessman did business, he could use that paper instead of having to carry a truckload of coins around. This finally led to the     7     (print) of paper money as we know it today by the early 11th century. Depending upon     8     era, paper money may have been worth quite a lot or may have been nearly    9    (worth). However, paper money was     10    (simple) too convenient to give up, and so in the end it replaced coins.